/lit/ - Literature

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Thanks for the feedback, fellas. Self-indulgent seems to be a consensus. Do you guys think it reads too much like DFW or am I just overthinking it? Other people have said it reminds them more of Joyce and Pynchon, but I don't know. Either way I want it to be unique and distinct.

>>7790662
I dig this. I'm not sure about it being written in dialect but I can see it maybe working. Some of it might be a little cliche: whistlin' dixie, somethin' fierce. Of course if this is the voice of your narrator I can see a reason for that but it is a little off-putting. Also the apostrophes are kinda distracting. Definitely digging the setting and imagery though.

Name First M.I. Last D.O.B. Address City ZIP Email &c. &c.

Travis P. Arlus Ernmeyer. He usually put P. for the M.I. but it did not serve as an initial or did it? P. being his actual second name: the letter itself, the grapheme, with the punctuation mark, “P.” He knew of a fella, whom he had interacted with on a field trip as a young boy, with the middle name “Cue,” which sounds like a M.I., but of course is not an initialism at all, being only homophonic with the letter Q and not homomorphic. P is homophonic with “pee,” and for this reason Ernmeyer was generally unwilling to reveal his second name, opting instead for the marginally preferable “Arlus,” a name conferred on behalf of his maternal grandfather, who was not named Arlus, but Carl, who wished he had been named Arlus, and in a characteristic temper of egoism, had forced the name onto his then-as-yet-unborn grandson.

Now that he thought about it, putting down P. might arouse suspicion if any of the vast numbers to whom he had given as his middle name the mildly deep-fried antebellum syllabification of “Arlus” happened to come across one of these official type documents and find a big old hunchback “P.” staring them in the face.

A is a much more refined letter. The elegant sloping sides propped up against each other, classically architectural, supporting a regal pediment, the tympanum of which is reminiscent of course of trigonometry, Euclidean geometry, and higher and more ancient thought in general. P, in contrast, conjures up images firstly of micturition, secondly of lechery. This second is reinforced in the visual quality of it, humped, rheumatic, old and rePulsive. Not the upstanding ancient awe of A, but the putrid senescence of palsied, leering p.

Will post more upon request.

>>7199450
>pretty

Do you believe that Truth is attainable/accessible?

If so, how will we know when we've found it?